Models show that in a warmer climate, the 2012 North American derecho would shrink and decay earlier in Mid-Atlantic coastal areas.

Research in the Energy Sciences Center explores how heat changes in chemical reactions, paving the way for more efficient fuels and processes.

Highly precise and controllable single-atom catalysts are affected by reaction conditions, which can alter the bonding around the atoms and the activity.

PNNL’s wide-ranging report maps the current nanobiotechnology landscape, flags potential concerns, and details the need for an organizing body to coordinate currently disparate disciplines.

By adding rain, snow, and rain-on-snow precipitation data to a background model, a new scheme pinpoints local flood risks in order to improve the design of small-scale hydrological infrastructure.

Developed a data-assimilation method based on physics-informed deep learning to resolve downscaled flow fields within a large-scale river model.

Chemical Engineer Yong Wang explains the influence and opportunity for joint appointments. Wang maintains one of the longest joint appointment tenures at PNNL.

Unveiling diverse scenarios and implications for water resource management in a rapidly changing world.

The papers were featured in the security and quantum sessions at the 2023 International Symposium on Computer Architecture.

Using a combination of satellite data and modeling to study the temperatures and humidity people might feel in urban areas, researchers have pinpointed who in the U.S. is most vulnerable to heat stress.

Quantifying the long-term destination of anthropogenic emissions and robustness of global carbon sinks.

New study identifies crucial factors for more accurate hydrological predictions in the Community Land Model version 5.

Groundwater modeling of irrigation return flow dynamics is important for improving estimates of water availability.

Researchers created the first open-source database of exotic materials eyed for use in quantum applications.

PNNL scientists investigate the promising properties of a common, Earth-abundant salt.

The Great Plains and Great Lakes regions are the major sources of moisture for the precipitation that falls in the Great Lakes region.

A team of researchers at PNNL designed and constructed an atmospheric chamber to simulate the fate of volatile and semivolatile radioisotopes.

A computationally efficient calibration procedure helps constrain simulated runoff in an Earth system model.

The complex interactions between the land and atmosphere can affect cloud growth.

Existing clouds affect the growth of neighboring clouds.